Nothing good on the telly again this Christmas? fear not! A whole slew of videos have just been released by Offset from their 2010 event – including the likes of: David Carson, Poke, Lance Wyman, Daniel Eatock, George Lois & DJ Shadow. Fill yer boots.

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For today’s instalment of christmas card goodness, this effort from Sydney ad agency Host, impressed with it’s mix of video, real world experience and some ‘whoah cool what the heck is that’ technological gee-whiz-ardry — they topped it off with a funny name inspired by the unfortunate name of the street the agency is located on. Another massive production, so I’m hoping to find something simple, beautiful or clever for tomorrow.

Keep the suggestions coming! I’m all ears.

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Central Station are currently going through some big changes, with Central Station v2 set to launch at the end of this month. The primary change to the site will be a shift in focus away from being an online community towards becoming a ‘network of networks’. Those with profiles and work on the site may want to make sure they have their projects available to view on other networks such as Béhance, Flickr and Vimeo, as the Portfolios section will be removed as part of the change. You can read more about the changes in the recent Central Station v2 blog post.

As part of the launch, Central Station will be running ‘50 Artists in 50 Days’, which will see a different member featured every day for the first 50 days of v2. A great opportunity to gain some free publicity if you get in there early enough. Check the 50 x 50 post in Central Station’s Opportunities section for details.

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We’re proud to announce that FormFiftyFive was selected as an official media partner of the OFFF 2012 conference.

What does this mean for you guys?

It means that we’ll have access to all the speakers and can get your questions straight to them. We’ll try and get some feedback from you all on how you found our interviews from OFFF ’11 and try to make them even better.

But for now we’d recommend that you make use of the OFFF Early Bird Offer and get your hands on some tickets before the 13th November. An absolute steal at €99 for the whole 3 days plus a copy of the official book! A visit to Barcelona is worth a trip in itself.

Dates and Venue
OFFF Barcelona 2012 will be hosted on the 17th, 18th and 19th of May 2012 at the new building of the Disseny Hub Barcelona. The DHUB allows almost 4.000 attendees, which ensures that there shouldn’t be any problems find a seat this time round! Also, this time there will only be one main stage for the speakers. There will of course be the usual extra areas such as Openroom for the younger, promising artists, workshops, mercadillo, etc.

Confirmed artists so far…
Matias Corea (BEHANCE), Memo Akten (memo.tv), Romain Gavras, Emil Kozak, Linda Zacks, yU+co, Found Electronics, Mario Lombardo, Ritxi Ostáriz, Borja Martínez (LOSIENTO), Santa-Marta, I Love Dust, Carlitos y Patricia, Folch Studio, Daniel Eatock and Jonathan Harris (Number27).

Keep an eye on the OFFF site for more confirmed speakers!

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OFFSET, Dublin’s creative festival, returns to the spectacular Grand Canal Theatre next March 9/10/11 2012. With 24 leading creative lights on the main stage, a second room for debates and discussion, interviews and lots more surprises planned, this looks set to be their biggest and brightest yet.

We’ll be there covering the event and hopefully bringing you interviews with some of the speakers from the excellent line-up that includes…

Our aim has always been to create a casual atmosphere where like-minded people can share creative ideas, be inspired and leave the event with a sense of hope going forward. – Offset 2012.

See you there?

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On Thursday 20th until Saturday 22nd October TYPO London, the event based on the hugely successful TYPO Berlin conference, returns to its roots in London.

TYPO London is a three day conference representing, as the name suggests, contemporary commentary on graphic design, typography and communication. This year boasts a deliberately broad range of speakers, covering visual communication, film, emerging media, design, education, technology, information and typography.

The vast list of confirmed speakers includes some well known names such as: Adrian Shaughnessy, Erik Spiekermann, Jonathan Barnbrook, Michael Bierut, Neville Brody, Tony Brook, Jonathan Ellery and many, many more!

From students to business leaders, TYPO London is a forum to learn about the exemplary, from best of the best. Anyone interested in learning new perspectives, meeting people and making connections in the creative industry should definitely sign-up!

And if all that hasn’t convinced you check out these 10 Reasons to buy a TYPO London ticket.

TYPO London 2011
20–22 October 2011
Logan Hall
Institute of Education London
University of London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL

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Great little documentary on Bristol’s biggest-ever street art event, See No Evil. Artists, both local and international, transformed one of Bristol’s drabbest city streets for the event.

Read full article on Computer Arts.

Official Site

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The Dead Wrestler Society is an upcoming exhibition from I Love Dust showing at the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth. It opens today and runs until the end of next month. In their words;

Professional Wrestling has given us some of the most colourful and charismatic characters in sports history. Defying all attempts at labelling or categorisation these huge writhing muscular masses of outrageous behaviour clad in ever-changing wardrobes of flamboyant costumes and crazy colour-ways. What better muse for ilovedust?

In other news: Macho died!?!

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Marking Salford studio Raw‘s 5th year of work and collaborations, Raw have created Raw5 – over 100 illustrators and designers from around the world have created unique pieces of art based on the theme ‘birthday’ which will be exhibited and available to buy during the evening. Any pieces that are still available after the event will be available online from tomorrow on here.

All of profit raised will be donated to the Wood Street Mission, offering practical help and support to the children and families that surround Raw’s studio.

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Pointe Blank is a physical and online exhibition of original artwork organised by Rob Lindsay at Birmingham Royal Ballet and designer Claire Hartley.

‘An exhibition of original images inspired by the story of Coppélia. In a first-of-its-kind project for Birmingham Royal Ballet, 27 artists and designers have been invited to produce individual pieces of artwork based upon toymaker Doctor Coppélius, and his attempts to breathe life into his most prized creation’.

It features the work of Ashley O’Brien, Ben Javens, Chris Henley, Christine Hughes, Claire Hartley, Crayonfire, Darren John, Dave Hughes, Gavin Auty, Harriet Grey, The Hidden Dingbat Collective, Ian, Caulkett, Jamie Littler, Jimmy Rogers, Jo Spencer, Katie Parry, Luke Tonge, Mezzetty, Middle Boop, Nathan Monk, Rachel Tighe, Ryan Dean-Corke, Sam Pierpoint, Sarah Ray, Simon Wild, Studio Family and Sweaty Eskimo.

Exhibition photography by Lewis Bloor.

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